Mandate encore, Mattarella slows down: "Even Leone said no to re-election"
The President of the Republic quotes his predecessor reiterating his position on the possibility of extending his stay at the Colle beyond the expiration of the seven-year term
Sergio Mattarella (Ansa)
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While the "toto-names" on the next President of the Republic is already raging and while the hypothesis of a second mandate - also a bridge, up to the 2023 elections - of Sergio Mattarella is back in vogue, Mattarella himself reiterates (taking it wide, but not even too much) its unavailability.
He did so in the Bronzino del Quirinale room, during a ceremony dedicated to one of his predecessors at the Hill, Giovanni Leone, whose twentieth anniversary of death occurs.
In his speech Mattarella remarked that Leone, in a message to Parliament in 1975, asked for "the non-re-election of the President of the Republic with the elimination of the blank semester". And he had already remarked recently that the same request had come from another President of the Republic, Antonio Segni.
Leone, explained Mattarella, rejected the idea of a hegemonic temptation within the EEC of the strongest countries, to observe, with regard to Italy, that, however, "it is becoming increasingly difficult to assert the reasons for" a country in crisis " , marked by "a climate of renunciation".
A sort of "repetita iuvant" to those who urge him to make himself available to remain at the Colle at least until 2023, the year in which deputies and senators of a new Parliament legitimized by the polls will be re-elected.
(Unioneonline / lf)